- From: John C. Vernaleo <john@netpurgatory.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:06:34 -0500 (EST)
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 1/22/13 4:55 PM, Mays, David wrote: >> Encrypted media delivery has uses other than DRM. >> >> One obvious one I can think of is for secure private video communications. >> Think of a doctor transmitting a video diagnosis to a patient > > This case can be served quite well, I believe, by proposals that allow the > doctor and the patient to access the video data. Furthermore, the encryption > APIs involved could, I again believe, be quite clearly specified in this > case. > > That's assuming that SSL is not sufficient for this purpose. > >> and it's easy to imagine a case for encrypted video that has nothing to do >> with DRM. > > Actually, it's really hard to imagine cases for ecnrypted video that need the > level of mistrust in the receiving party that the draft in question espouses > that have nothing to do with DRM. > > If we are indeed talking about other use cases, I would like to hear what > they are, and we should consider designing a system that caters to those use > cases better than the currently proposed one. > > -Boris > > Boris just stated what I was trying to say in my previous email much better than I did. John
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